Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

["Jeff Soules" <soules@gmail.com>]

Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with
anything in the i386-amd64 family.  If you can burn the CD, it will do
its own thing so long as you boot from the CD drive.
See: http://www.memtest.org/  (Don't know if your system is functional
enough to download and burn a cd, but you're posting to the mailing
list, so maybe you can?)

If something is wrong with your memory, that ought to spot it, and it
runs completely separate from any operating system you have installed,
so even if your lenny is pretty seriously borked you should still be
able to work with it.

I would be surprised if the SATA cables were the culprit, but it never
hurts to be thorough.  Just be sure to check each part, one piece at a
time.

Good luck.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:57 PM, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:03:16 +0000
> Nick Syrotiuk <syrotiuk@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Yes, it could be that.  I'm a software guy not a hardware guy.  How
>> do you suggest I diagnose a hardware problem?
>
> Try shutdown -rF now and watch when the file systems are checked on
> reboot. Try to remove as many memory sticks from the board as possible
> (unplug the power supply before you open the case) and see what
> happens. If nothing changes, swap the memory stick against the one of
> those you have taken out until all sticks are checked. Research about
> incompatibilities with the board and the memory, maybe something is
> known. Change out the SATA cables.